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are also maybe more social, so I like to have teams CONCLUSION and sensitive method to detect cardioactive cells. Biomaterials. 2014;35(2):675-683.
of students work on things. I think that just recog- There is perhaps no better way to wrap up this pro- drugs. Sci Rep. 2015;5:11817. 8. Wang J, Chen A, Lieu DK, Karakikes I, Chen G,
nizing what your students need and supporting that file on Khine than to revisit the National Academy of 5. Sharma H, Digman M, Felsinger N, Gratton E, Keung W, Chan CW, Hajjar RJ, Costa KD, Khine
is a way to be more inclusive in the classroom and to Inventors induction ceremony in April 2017. When Khine M. Enhanced emission of fluorophores M, Li RA. Effect of engineered anisotropy on the
engage students and to keep them engaged. her name was called, Khine came up to the stage on shrink-induced wrinkled composite struc- susceptibility of human pluripotent stem cell-de-
T&I: Final question. You were recently included in to receive her medal with her young son strapped tures. Opt Mater Express. 2014;4(4):753-763. rived ventricular cardiomyocytes to arrhythmias.
a list of the hottest scientists, and I couldn’t help but around her in his baby carrier, at which point the 6. Lin S, Hedde PN, Venugopalan V, Gratton Biomaterials. 2013;34(35):8878-8886.
wonder how you feel about that. Do you think that’s whole crowd erupted in applause and sprang to their E, Khine M. Multi-scale silica structures for 9. Pegan J, Ho A, Bachman M, Khine M. Flexible
a good thing or a bad thing? feet collectively in a heartfelt standing ovation. When improved HIV-1 Capsid (p24) antigen detec- shrink-induced high surface area electrodes for
asked if that moment was a conscious decision or tion. Analyst. 2016;141(13):4181-4188. electrochemiluminescent sensing. Lab Chip.
Khine: I have mixed feelings about that, and I guess it not, Khine turns reflective, “I thought about that in 7. Chen A, Lee E, Tu R, Santiago K, Grosberg A, 2013;21:4205-4209.
goes back to when I was starting my academic career advance because I looked around the room, and it Fowlkes C, Khine M. Integrated platform for 10. Lin S, Sharma H, Khine M. Shrink-induced silica
in graduate school. I never wore makeup, never wore was predominantly distinguished men, and so I was functional monitoring of biomimetic heart structures for far-field fluorescence enhance-
heels. I wanted to blend in as one of the guys very a bit intimidated – but I also just wanted to share this sheets derived from human pluripotent stem ments. Adv Opt Mater. 2013;1(8):568-572.
desperately because I wanted them to take me seri- special moment with my son. I also wanted to make
ously. I didn’t want them to discount me. Then, one a statement that working moms with young children
of my first friends in academia was a junior profes- could be inventors.” Her support for working moms
sor, and she wore makeup and was very feminine. She is consonant with her body of work, as she is true
said, “Just be yourself because this is too tiring. You to the principles of equity and fairness in all things,
don’t want to blend in. If you want to wear a skirt to from equal access to health care to eliminating dis-
work, if you want to put on makeup, you should feel parities in health outcomes to leveling the playing
at liberty to do that because that is being taken seri- field for scientists of all genders. On that last point,
ously: when somebody looks at your work for itself, Khine adds, “I’m lucky right now because I have free-
and not because you’re fitting in and conforming.” dom to juggle my days, but I think that we need to
The list itself is a conversation starter, and peo- figure out how to support all inventors because the
ple bring it up sometimes. There are men on the list, creativity is there, but we need to figure out how to
which is nice. I don’t actually know if it is a positive allow women inventors the time to be a mom and to
thing or a negative thing, but what’s neat about it is it also be an inventor. I think that is the statement that
actually highlighted scientists on social media, which needs to be made.” It would be hard to disagree with
is nice. I think the more visibility that scientists actu- either Khine’s assessment or with the fact that her
ally get as human beings is good because I do think success in academia and her ability to translate that
that they stereotype us to be very much like Sheldon success to a larger lay audience is helping to make
on The Big Bang Theory. So if they said, “Well, this equity for women inventors a more reachable goal.
is actually what scientists are like, they’re both male As this piece goes to print, Khine is currently pursu-
and female and they can be attractive, they can come ing her fifth company and recently had her second
in all different colors,” I think that’s a good thing. baby.

FURTHER READING sensors to monitor human movement. Adv
Mater Technol. 2016;1(5).
1. Park SJ, Kim J, Chu M, Khine M. Flexible 3. Pegan JD, Zhang J, Chu M, Nguyen T, Park SJ,
Piezoresistive pressure sensor using wrinkled Paul A, Kim J, Bachman M, Khine M. Skin-
carbon nanotube thin films for human physio- mountable stretch sensor for wearable health
logical signals. Adv Mater Technol. 2018;3(1). monitoring. Nanoscale. 2016;8:17295-17303.
2. Park SJ, Kim J, Chu M, Khine M. Highly flexi- 4. Lee EK, Kurokawan YK, Tu R, George SC, Khine
ble wrinkled carbon nanotube thin film strain M. Machine learning plus optical flow: a simple